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DCSD Summer Summit 2025
We can’t wait to collaborate and learn along with you at Summer Summit 2025!

  • July 29 and 30, 2025: In-Person Sessions for Leaders at MVHS

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Tuesday, July 29
 

10:45am MDT

Assess, Analyze, Act: Leveraging Elementary Literacy Assessments to Strengthen and Target Reading Instruction
Tuesday July 29, 2025 10:45am - 12:15pm MDT
Learn about DCSD’s updated elementary literacy assessment guidance and how it will connect to screening for reading risk, including characteristics of Dyslexia. Identify key literacy assessments across the domains of reading in your school and examine how those assessments can be leveraged to strengthen and target reading instruction for all learners.
Speakers
avatar for Renee Vanhorn

Renee Vanhorn

Formative Assessment Specialist and READ Act Coordinator, Douglas County School District
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Lynni Nordheim

Dyslexia Specialist, DCSD
Tuesday July 29, 2025 10:45am - 12:15pm MDT

10:45am MDT

Moving thinkSRSD Forward based on Leadership Walkthroughs to Drive PLCs and Differentiation
Tuesday July 29, 2025 10:45am - 12:15pm MDT
Leaders will learn how to use the thinkSRSD Leadership Walkthrough Tool to guide PLC conversations and support teachers with targeted, differentiated next steps. This session will focus on using walkthrough data to grow teacher practice and move SRSD implementation forward across classrooms.
Speakers
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Janet Merrill

Curriculum Coordinator, DCSD
avatar for Traci Thorstenson

Traci Thorstenson

Curriculum Coordinator, DCSD
Tuesday July 29, 2025 10:45am - 12:15pm MDT
 
Wednesday, July 30
 

9:45am MDT

Moving UFLI Forward based on Leadership Walkthroughs to Drive PLCs and Differentiation
Wednesday July 30, 2025 9:45am - 10:45am MDT
Leaders will learn how to use the UFLI Leadership Walkthrough Tools to guide PLC conversations and support teachers with targeted, differentiated next steps. This session will focus on using walkthrough data to grow teacher practice and move UFLI implementation forward across classrooms.
Speakers
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Lynni Nordheim

Dyslexia Specialist, DCSD
avatar for Traci Thorstenson

Traci Thorstenson

Curriculum Coordinator, DCSD
avatar for Renee Vanhorn

Renee Vanhorn

Formative Assessment Specialist and READ Act Coordinator, Douglas County School District
Wednesday July 30, 2025 9:45am - 10:45am MDT
 
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